Scheduled Game: REGINA*

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GAME RESULTS 1 2 T REGINA 43 40 83 Trinity Western 43 60 103 « FINAL

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Game Recap

Men’s Basketball (Conference)
Friday, November 3, 2006
Regina (103) TWU (83)

SPARTANS GET FIRST WIN IN CANADA WEST REGULAR SEASON
TWU defeats Regina 103-83 with a sound 60 point second half

LANGLEY, British Columbia – On Friday night the Spartan Faithful watched Trinity Western University guard Brian Banman (4th year, Kelowna, B.C.) drop in 30 points, as the Spartans won their first Canada West conference game 103-83 over the visiting University of Regina Friday night at TWU’s David E. Enarson Gym. Banman’s 30 points was one point shy of his career best 31 which he set earlier this year against Waterloo. The win moves the Spartans to 1-2 in Canada West while the loss drops the Cougars to 0-1.

The first half, which finished tied at 43-43, was a battle of two teams looking to gain control of the contest. After the first fifteen minutes the teams even at 34-34. Then the Spartans looked to take control of the game. An 8-1 TWU run gave the Spartans a 42-35 lead with just over two minutes remaining. But the Cougars would not go away. Paul Gareau (Regina, Sask.) scored five of his first half seven points as Regina finished the half with an 8-1 run of their own.

“In the first half, we just had too many turnovers.  Seventeen turnovers in the first half alone – that’s just too many,” commented TWU Head Coach Stan Peters.  The Cougars also had 15 turnovers of their own.

The Spartans continued to run as the second half got underway, but the Cougars hung tough and stayed with the pace of play. However, signs of fatigue were becoming evident as TWU built a slight 68-63 lead with 12:30 remaining.

That’s when the Cougars hit the wall of fatigue. It took only two minutes, but before Regina knew what hit them David Bron (5th year, Surrey, B.C.), Luke Robinson (4th year, Ahousat, B.C.)and Jason Keegstra (2nd year, Vernon, B.C.) had scored consecutive baskets to spark an 11-0 run to give the Spartans a 16 point lead, 79-63 with ten minutes remaining.

Regina tried to close the gap, but even after a Jamal Williams (Regina, Sask.) three pointer and a Paul Schubach (Regina, Sask.) jumper they still trailed 88-77 with three minutes left. It was as close as Regina would get down the stretch as TWU finished of the game with a 15-6 run to make the final 103-83.

“In the second half, we were way more focused.  We didn’t allow them to stop us, and we didn’t commit stupid fouls that slowed our momentum,” said Peters. “We wore them out.  We didn’t give them opportunities to rest.  They used their timeouts early and we knew we had them on the run, and we kept running them,”

Six Cougars scored in double digits, Jamal Williams leading the way with 14, but they were out-matched by four Spartans with the same accolade, Banman with 30, including 6 of 10 threes.  TWU recorded 35 attempts from long-range, hitting on 16 of them.

The Spartans will do it all again tomorrow night against the Brandon Bobcats at 8:00 pm in their home gym.

Game notes:  TWU’s Luke Robinson finished with 16 points, 6 assists, 6 rebounds, and 4 steals.  TWU’s Jon Schmidt recorded 6 steals...

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